UDM Professors Awarded "Best Paper" in Industry-Leading
Journal

In May, UDM Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors
Mark Paulik and Mohan Krishnan received the following letter:

Dear Profs. Paulik and Krishnan:

On behalf of the IEEE Education Society, I am pleased to notify
you that Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education,
David A. Conner, has reported to me that the paper

M.J. Paulik and M. Krishnan, "A Competition-Motivated Capstone
Design Course: The Result of a Fifteen-Year Evolution", IEEE Transactions
on Education, Vol. 44, No. 1, February 2001, pp. 67-75 has been
selected to receive the Best Transactions Paper Award for the year 2001.

Please accept my heartiest congratulations!

The basis for judging candidate papers is assessment of "Contributions
to furthering the objectives of the IEEE Education Society as demonstrated
by originality, quality, advancement of the art, and effectiveness of
presentation in terms of clarity of exposition and coherence." Winners
were selected by the Transactions' Associate Editors and a cross-section
of IEEE Members.

The award is presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference, which
will be held November 6-9, 2002, at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston,
MA.

The UDM community extends its congratulations to Professors
Paulik and Krishnan for this distinguished honor. IEEE Transactions
on Education is the international industry-leading journal on engineering
education.